Argus Web Development Process Cycle

The internet is becoming part of everybody's life in Qatar, from schoolchildren through to senior executives. Increasing internet access in homes, schools and businesses is a key part of Qatar's economic development strategy, building the foundations for the advancement of its knowledge economy.

I feel the Qatar market is becoming more competitive day by day and most business organizations started to think of taking maximum advantage of suitable latest technologies. Argus is researching the market to know the latest trends and serving our valued customers with most care for the last 3 years. For a business, as you aware, first important thing you need a website. Before developing a website, we know that you set your main objective as - a visitor of your web should get utmost impression or feeling than the one who visit your office/ organization. At Argus, we develop your websites with most care and through well defined life cycle steps.

Like any software, website development also requires standard methodologies and procedures. We would like to engage in a web project after a detailed preliminary study only. Before undertaking any project, there is an introduction and consultation phase, in which we gathered important information about the client’s business and their audience. So that we can set the goals – how can the site best serve the needs of the client and the users?

It is important for you to know and convey the purpose of your website, the intended audience of your website, and the message you want to communicate via your website. These will vary depending upon your line of business and whether you are a commercial business, or are a non-profit or political organization.

We will do a detailed study about client’s needs and how we can create a site that will effectively communicate with the audiences they would like to reach. We will draft a sitemap and discuss with them again with more options and recommendations. We can explain the strategy that we applied in organizing the site and listen carefully your feedbacks for changes and modifications.

Argus website development process can be divided in to different life cycle steps as follows:
1. Requirement Analysis
2. Planning
3. Development Proposal
4. Acceptance & Contract
5. Content Collection
6. Content Writing – optional
7. Concept Design and Approval
8. Development
9. Evaluation and Assessment
10. Final updates and project launch
11. Promotion
12. Maintenance

Flash based web sites in Qatar

Everybody knows about Flash, see lot of good looking flash intros and full flash web sites. Even though full flash sites require more download time initially, it will be good looking and people like to see.

Flash is a very popular website design in the world due to its ability to create high quality and light weight animations, images and website layouts. One of the primary reasons of using Flash to design websites is its ability to increase the visibility of the websites manifold, by making them stand out, as compared to other design technologies.

However, from search engine optimization (SEO) point of view, it’s not a good idea to design your website completely in Flash. Ideally, your website should have a blend of Flash animations for visual effects and HTML for SEO purposes.

Flash has unlimited potential to produce great looking website designs. Having Flash banners and Flash intro at your website is almost vital in today's competitive Internet environment.

Recently, Argus developed a full flash website for B5Design 

Have a look in Argus Web Showcase http://www.argusqatar.com/newPortfolio.html

Web design and development in Qatar

For any business, the 3 basic things most startups need to survive today are: Skilled entrepreneurs, funds and believe it or not, a website!

Your business should have a presence on the web so that your customers, partners and employees can find your relevant information on the internet.  Nowadays, most of us would sooner turn to the web to find what we need than look elsewhere. Search engines are much more quick and easy than reaching for the phonebook, newspaper, catalog, or to find what we're looking for.

As your business grows you should update your website with as much customer facing information as possible, means you should prefer to develop a dynamic site or CMS sites. There are several CMS software using for web development and some of them are Drupal, Joomla, Word press, etc. The customization is possible and we can help you to decide which better suits your needs. 


The features of an ideal CMS are:

1.  Tools that help users update and modify website content easily and with minimum technical effort,

2. They should have intuitive navigation and can set up functional site structure,

3. Appealing design,

4. Must support a fully configurable graphic design, and 

5. Should promote good website practices.

Argus Technology is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, full flash, ecommerce and CMS website in Qatar.

E-commerce / Shopping Cart web applications in Qatar

E-commerce websites enables great innovation for business owners to start and operate profitable businesses. With an e-commerce web, you’re able to reach your customers easily with targeted marketing. Shopping cart is software used in e-commerce to selling online or looking to streamline your online sales and marketing, your business depends on the right tools to effectively engage prospects and customers.

osCmax is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart web application. There are many advantages to using osCmax as your e-commerce/shopping cart for your web site. It has all the features needed to run a successful internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need.

osCmax is a clean open source commerce program that is loaded with the most popular add-on contributions. It is a good choice for someone who wants more than a basic store, but also wants to be able to customize their store with special add-ons.

osCMax is a powerful and flexible e-commerce shopping cart and inventory tracking system. osCMax is 100% customizable, and supports all the major payment gateways. Tens of thousands of web sites run osCMax already, from small startup sites, to extremely high volume established companies.

Argus developed lot of websites using osCMax and having good expertise on it. See some of our websites shown below:

And much more...

Argus offers web development using various open source software: Drupal, Joomla, osCMax, Wordpress, Zen Cart, and Magento.

Web development in Qatar using Drupal and Joomla

A CMS (content management system) is a software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, etc. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Without a good CMS, most web site owners would not be capable of setting up their site and maintaining it on a daily basis, as that would require a great deal of technical knowledge and persistence.

There are lot of open source CMS available. We can use any of this software to enhance web site management capabilities, and even build new CMS around the core system. If you would like to take advantage of such software, then go through the following top two open source CMS that Argus having good expertise:

Drupal

Drupal is one of the best open source CMS available, primarily because of its incredible capability to replicate the functionality of all other CMS, within a slightly more complex interface of course.

Joomla

Joomla enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available.

Argus developed several web sites using the open source CMS

Drupal

Joomla

 

Argus Qatar is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, full flash, e-commerce and CMS websites in Qatar.

See Argus Web showcase  http://www.argusqatar.com/newPortfolio.html

Websites, SEO and SEM in Qatar - Argus Profile

"A penny saved is a penny earned"


Whatever may be your business interest, it needs genius marketing strategies to make it successful. The online business too needs the same strategy with much more concentration as internet is the catching up in Qatar. Your company needs to adopt compelling online marketing strategies to promote your business online and to attract more eyeballs.


Argus Offering?


Argus can boast of this venture as pioneer company to provide Websites, SEO, and SEM solution in Qatar with highly talented technical team who enables and monitors website activities at all time. Argus enables its client’s idea to put into practice with professional impressions across all online media. 


What is Search Engine Optimization [SEO]?


SEO helps visitors find their website using the targeted keywords and phrases that best describe your business products and services


Search Engine Marketing & Sponsored link [SEM]

Common terms

Pay Per Click (PPC) 


Advertising campaign is designed to help you to achieve your search engine marketing (SEM) objectives. It’s a prepaid service where Paid Amount get deducted when click occurs on link.


Link Popularity 


Link popularity increases the popularity of the website, search engine consider link popularity for website ranking. It’s based on the Public Relation *PR+ activities happens on World Wide Web.


Social Media Marketing 


Social Media Marketing plays an active role by distribution of your content and message related to your business through the social web and some form of viral marketing.


Viral Marketing


Viral marketing (word-of-mouth marketing) is a really cool thing. Just think about it... instead of spending an insane amount of money on newspapers ads, TV commercials or banner ads, you spent nothing - and let your fans do all the work for you.


Impressions


Number of time each page load to give you a view of that page.


An advertisement's appearance on an accessed Web page. For example, if the page you're on shows three ads, that's three impressions. Advertisers use impressions to measure the number of views their ads receive, and publishers often sell ad space according to impressions. (It can be tough to know, though, whether an impression really means a visitor saw the ad, since they could be browsing without graphics or might not have scrolled down far enough.) Impressions are tracked in a log maintained by a site server and are often sold on a cost per hundred basis


Landing pages: Instead taking a visitor from the search result link to your website, searcher will directly land in a page of relevance what he is looking for.


What matters most in Search Engine?


1. Which websites link to you
2. Number of websites linking to you
3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you
4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you
5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you
6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website


Why Argus technologies?


Because of the extensive research, development and execution experience by creating search engine friendly website and content management systems, backed by an excellent off shore research team capable of analyzing global internet ideas & trends.

Web Design Qatar

Website design and development
CMS Sites - Joomla & Drupal
Full flash websites
Presentation CDs
E news letter management
Mass mail blasting
Search Engine Optimization
Content Writing
Online PR services to answer your web queries

CMS Websites verses Static websites

Websites are an important part of your business. They operate as a virtual shop front, a cyber window, into your business world.  A static web site does not allow any content modifications by the user. But, Content Management Systems, CMS, are software systems that allow users / groups of users to update the content on a web site. 


For ore details, see the following questions -

• Do you want to update your site regularly with new articles and information?
• Will your site be updated by several users and be able to keep track of changes?
• Do you want to have online product catalogues or shopping carts?
• Do you want to use your site to keep a group or community of users informed?

If you answered yes to any of those questions then chances are you will need a CMS.

The popular CMS we used are JOOMLA and DRUPAL. They are open source packages that will run on any Linux based web server and it uses PHP & MySQL. The customization is possible of either Joomla or Drupal based sites. We can help you to decide which better suits your needs.

Argus Qatar is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, e-commerce and CMS website in Qatar.

Argus Web Portfolios

Argus Qatar Internet Marketing Solutions

Argus Qatar can boast of this venture as a pioneer step in providing Websites, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) solutions in Qatar with highly talented technical team who enables and monitors website activities at all time.

What are Online Advertisement Campaign Goals?

• Increased Visibility -Number of people who see advertisements.

• Increased Response- Number of people who go to the website.

• Increased Inquiries - Number of people posting an inquiry on website

How Argus does it?  

In 3 steps

1. Target audience segmentation, media planning, and execution.

2. User experience design.

3. Analytics consulting. 

What matters most in Search Engine?

1. Which websites link to you

2. Number of websites linking to you

3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you

4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you

5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you

6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website

Why Argus technologies?

Because of the extensive research, development and execution experience by creating search engine friendly website and content management systems, backed by an excellent off shore research team capable of analyzing global internet ideas & trends.